A carved table showing early printers' marks on the Widener Library.

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A carved table showing early printers' marks on the Widener Library.

Contains an offprint of an article by Mason Hammond about a carved table in Widener Library that was published in The Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. xxxvi, no. 4, 1988.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8186977

Harvard University Archives.

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Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Widener Library is the world's largest university library. It is the central library of the larger entity known as the Harvard College Library. Horace Trumbauer designed the library building. Begun in 1912 in the New Yard, on the site of Gore Hall (the previous college library, which was far too small), the library was completed in 1914. The library is named for Harry Elkins Widener (A.B. 1907) who died in 1912, an ill-fated passenger onboard the Titanic. From the description of Gene...

Hammond, Mason, 1903-2002

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Hammond earned his Harvard AB in 1925. From the description of Notes in History 23, 1922-1923. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075504 From the description of Final honors examination in Latin 7, May 7, 1925. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075614 Hammond graduated from Harvard in 1925 and taught Latin at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Mason Hammond, 1922-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973...